[Qcwa] Vic Clark, W4KFC

[Dick Rucker]

on 1/8/03 13:28, CyberGeezer at cybergeezer74@hotmail.com wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dick Rucker" <rrucker@bellatlantic.net>
> To: "members & friends of QCWA Vic Clark Chapter 91"
> <rrucker@bellatlantic.net>; "QCWA Reflector"
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:44 AM
> Subject: [Qcwa] QCWA Vic Clark Chapter 91 website updated
> 
> Where might I find a biography of Vic Clark?
> 
> Why do I ask?  The ham bug bit me (hard) in July of 1951
> when I read an article about in _Boys Life_ (the Boy Scout
> magazine).  The article prominently chronicled the ham
> activities up to that point of Vic Clark.  I don't know
> much about what became of him after that, except that he
> won all the contests and became president of the League
> during a period when I was out of radio.

>  73 de W2GERry

The best I have seen appeared in the January 1984 issue of QST.  It was
written by David Sumner, K1ZZ, and appeared in his "It Seems to Us..."
column.  In it there's a picture of 19-year old Vic who had won the Hiram
Percy Maxim Memorial Award for 1936, the first year it was issued.

Vic was a member of Chapter 91, so we have members who knew him well and
admired him for his CW and other skills, leadership, and achievements.
ARRL's legal counsel, Chris Imlay, N3AKD, has told our chapter fun stories
about working and traveling with Vic in the early 1980s as a young attorney.

Vic died of a heart attack the day after Thanksgiving, 1983, while still
president of the ARRL.  Chapter 91 then successfully petitioned QCWA to
change its name from the "Northern Virginia Chapter" to the "Vic Clark
Chapter" in memoriam.

A Google search on "W4KFC" turns up a bunch of hits. Here's an excerpt from
one:

"CQ Announces CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Class of 2002

NEWINGTON, CT, May 31, 2002-- CQ Amateur Radio magazine has  announced
another 44 inductees to its CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame.  The Amateur
Radio Hall of Fame was established in January 2001 to  recognize those
individuals--amateurs and non-amateurs--who  "significantly affected the
course of Amateur Radio" as well  as radio amateurs whose professional
activities "had a significant  impact on their professions or on world
affairs...  Two  past ARRL presidents made the list: Harry Dannals, W2HD
(1972-1982),  and the late Vic Clark, W4KFC (1982-1983),"

If anyone knows of an in-depth biography (or autobiography) on Vic, W2GERry
and I would like to know about it.

73, Dick Rucker, KM4ML
Vic Clark Chapter 91 Secretary